Capturing the Soul of Software

A pocket full of personal software - Bailey's Retrospective

A year-ish spent building software I want, the way I want with *in a low voice* llms

Building an Open Source Company: Interview with GitLab's CEO

Building an Open Source Company: Interview with GitLab's CEO

The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know

I’m a huge Steve Yegge fan, so It was a great honor to have Steve Yegge on a recent Stack Overflow podcast. One thing I couldn’t have predicted, however, was one particular theme of Steve’s experience at Google and Amazon that kept coming up time and time

All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders | Andreessen Horowitz

As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busines, a16z general partner Peter Levine is constantly asked “Why sales?” by entrepreneurs and technical founders. He himself used to hold the “engineer-centric” view that if...

Stop Begging Billionaires To Fix Software — Build Your Own

This is part one of a two-part series on using AI tools as one piece to fight back against tech company control of our lives. Part two shares the details of how I built my own task management tool …

Open Source Software and Corporate Influence — Andrew Lilley Brinker

Exploring how corporations gain power in open source projects, and how to build resilience to corporate capture.

Someone behind the software

I think good products carry something of the people who make them. Their experience, what they care about, and how they think things should work.

Stephen Hood on Twitter / X

Was feeling cranky about all the people claiming they’re building an “AI OS,” so… I vibe coded an AI OS. Meet Llanux, a custom Linux distro that boots to llama.cpp. No GNOME/KDE, just a chat TUI, local inference, and a model downloader. Forgive me. https://t.co/vJVvUm9HWY pic.twitter.com/dHpNKuHOQz— Stephen Hood (@stlhood) January 23, 2026

Ryan Singer on Twitter / X

A friend of mine needs software that is too high-stakes to vibe-code. I ended up giving him a primer on how to make progress on his idea before he hires a developer.Most of my friends on X are software devs, but I'm sharing this for anyone who's not. https://t.co/V1y2WagDnv— Ryan Singer (@rjs) September 25, 2026

David Marcos (@noz.am) · Software Engineer

David Marcos — Senior Software Engineer. Public data, open networks, and product development. Powered live by AT Protocol.

Conversations for Action | and Collected Essays

Conversations For Action and Collected Essays is a compilation of the seminal works by Dr. Fernando Flores during his tenure as CEO and President of Logonet Inc., an educational and coaching organization, and Business Design Associates, the pioneer management consulting firm in implementing large scale innovation processes and programs.  The book is a response to the requests from many former students and clients over the years for the “papers” with Flores’ distinct framework for building teams, leaders, and organizations.